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No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
Sara Paretsky
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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
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She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.
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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
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All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
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The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.
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I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
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You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into the narrative is to turn it into action.
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I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues
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I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.
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Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
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Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.
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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide.
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It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
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Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.
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White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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